Optional Work Item Reviewers
RTC V4.0
When adding reviewers to a work item they are all set as Mandatory. We have a concept that there may have been 5 people in a review meeting but only 3 of these are really mandatory to review work items and the other 2 are "nice to have" but will not delay the process if they do not do a review.
is there anyway to define reviewers as optional without affecting or delaying the work flow and progression of the work item.
The project is working on an air gasped infrastructure and does not have mail clients define so am unable to set the optional reviewers as subscribers and track that way.
To get around this the project have been setting the optionals to "Approved" and adding a comment to say that
they did not review but we need to set to "Approved" to allow the WPI to move around the life-cycle.
Thanks
When adding reviewers to a work item they are all set as Mandatory. We have a concept that there may have been 5 people in a review meeting but only 3 of these are really mandatory to review work items and the other 2 are "nice to have" but will not delay the process if they do not do a review.
is there anyway to define reviewers as optional without affecting or delaying the work flow and progression of the work item.
The project is working on an air gasped infrastructure and does not have mail clients define so am unable to set the optional reviewers as subscribers and track that way.
To get around this the project have been setting the optionals to "Approved" and adding a comment to say that
they did not review but we need to set to "Approved" to allow the WPI to move around the life-cycle.
Thanks
Accepted answer
Hi David,
I don't think RTC has out of the box support for that. You either are an approver or you are not. The cumulative approval state is also either approved if all approved or not approved. There is no information stored with the approver information in approvals that you could use to decide who is optional either. You could probably use information such as roles as a work around and implement you own advisors and participants to support a different approval workflow. http://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/a-create-approval-work-item-save-participant/ shows some of the required API. However, writing all the advisors and participants would be a lot of work.
I don't think RTC has out of the box support for that. You either are an approver or you are not. The cumulative approval state is also either approved if all approved or not approved. There is no information stored with the approver information in approvals that you could use to decide who is optional either. You could probably use information such as roles as a work around and implement you own advisors and participants to support a different approval workflow. http://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/a-create-approval-work-item-save-participant/ shows some of the required API. However, writing all the advisors and participants would be a lot of work.